Unknowable Quotes

104 quotes by 91 authors

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else,… — Chuck Palahniuk
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the… — Maya Angelou
We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. — Isaac Asimov
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before. — Robin McKinley
History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't… — Kim Stanley Robinson
He would not let her go. Even though, staring into her open eyes in the swirling salt-filled water, with sun flashing though each wave, he… — Elizabeth Strout
I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I believe that Godâ€”if he exists at allâ€”is what we want him to be. The true God is unknowable, and so we dress him up… — Michael Thomas Ford
It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable… — Zora Neale Hurston
I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that… — Lynn Barber
all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction — Kate Constable
Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the… — Kate Morton
Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit,… — Mary Gaitskill
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics.… — Michael Crichton
Now I am the unknown, the unknowable. — Maggie Stiefvater
i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable. — Lauren Oliver
Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according… — Melissa de la Cruz
Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love… — Ben Elton

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